For the love of cthulu, would someone in the wordpress development team please fix the fucking re-write rules in 2.0.x!
If you cannot do that, provide a bloody administration tab to allow ‘exclusions’ to be manually entered in that will never be parsed by the built in wordpress re-write functions.
The single biggest flaw with 2.x is it’s handling of restricted access folders. Right now password protecting a directory via .htaccess will lead to a 404 in wordpress. Why is that still not fixed even though 2.0.1 is now out?!
Perhaps there is someone out there who could write a plugin to do the same thing? All it needs to do, is accept a directory name (or a list of directories) and convert that into a suitable regex exclusion that forces wordpress to ignore the directory. Cut that code and you’ll have a large number of people beating down your door to grab it.
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Feb 9th, 2006 at 4:41 am
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Feb 9th, 2006 at 4:30 am
For holy christ-mouse YES! please. Fix this someone, please.
Feb 9th, 2006 at 6:09 pm
I totally agree.
The latest beta version of Extended Live Archives doesn’t work in every browser, except Safari, due to that bug, I assume.
Feb 9th, 2006 at 7:46 pm
ELA is dependant on certain features of mod_rewrite working. Due to the complete third reich approach to rewrites in 2.0.x, stuff like ELA breaks.
The moment mod_rewrite was controlled internally by WP, should have been the moment an administrative function was added to control it.
Stop gap measures trying to ‘work around’ WP by manual entries in .htaccess seldom work reliably due to it WP processing whatever the fuck it wants to suit itself.
Meanwhile.. the WP devel team happily stuff certain aspects of that problem under the rug, in favour of continuing to adding more ‘candy’ to wordpress.
Feb 12th, 2006 at 6:05 pm
Just as a side note - do not use the latests SVN build - it’s borken. XML feeds now have invalid code and one cannot post entries as the ‘published’ status doesn’t stick.
Feb 18th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
Have you figured out a fix for this yet? I’ve found no help yet on the WordPress forums.
Feb 19th, 2006 at 2:04 am
Chris - check out my latest post on this. It’s a work-around that ‘fixes’ the re-write rules at the .htaccess level..
What I really want to do is incorporate this feature as a plugin that adds re-write rules into the wordpress internal re-write engine, however I’m not that crash hot on how the WP handles it’s internal re-writes, so it may take me a while. :)